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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 23, 202020 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 23, 2020, 4:19 AM CDT for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 23, 2020, 4:19 AM CDT (09:19 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 24, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
All 21 counties

Beaver County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 266 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2020-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2020-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 411 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
691 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 4:19 AM CDTFreeze WatchAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 5 more10 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2020Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.